Sophia’s Library was founded by Sergei Shilov in 2008. Initially it was an electronic music project titled Mortal Passions. Sergei aimed to be free from genre constraints, but the first album was close to dark neoclassical. That’s why the project was renamed to Sophia’s Library: there may be books of any genre in a library, but the name Sophia suggests the music will make us think about eternity, the meaning of life, and similar themes.

The first album, Await, was self-released in 2009.

Soprano singer Olga Avdeeva found Await on the internet and decided to join the project, so since 2009 Sophia’s Library is officially a duo, though the most of the compositions are still instrumental.

The second album, Artificial Life, was released at the end of 2010 and sounds more experimental and industrial. This is the only industrial album of Sophia’s Library, later Sergei founded Psychotic Dreams for this kind of music, so unofficially Artificial Life is the first album of Psychotic Dreams.

Can’t Forget You was released at the beginning of 2011 and was the first and last album of Sophia’s Library that received a lot of feedback from listeners.

Learn to Fly is the last self-released album of Sophia’s Library that includes all tracks that have not been released before.

In 2011 Sergei started to work on the next album titled Лунный яд (Lunveneno) based on the story by Stanislav Rzhevskiy with the same title. It was released on our label in 2020.

The russian language song Паутина single was released on September 16, 2021. This is the first release with Olga’s vocals.

On November 12, 2023 Daniil Shurupov released the Пробуждение (Awakening) short movie based on Sophia’s Library’s version of O, Solitude! by Henry Purcell, making it the first official Sophia’s Library music video.

Two years later, Rainy Day, composed in 2016, was released as a single.